Server move

[thomas]

Dear valued members,

this week we have to migrate all of our websites, including JREF, to new servers. Our new servers are already online, if there are no further technical issues I shall move JREF lock, stock and barrel over Wednesday night. We hope to be back online by Thursday morning (Feb. 25) JST.

Keep your fingers crossed.

 

[thomas]

Due to technical difficulties we had to postpone the server migration. We'll try again midnight, Thursday, February 25 JST.

 

[thomas]

After initial difficulties in moving our 54GB of data to the new server, we have finally managed to migrate JREF. Let me know if you encounter any errors.

We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

I believe we may have lost three or four posts, one of them from Ashikaga-san due to the fact that the DN servers propagated faster than anticipated. Sorry about that!

 

[epigene]

Is the server move complete?

As a matter of habit, I click on the JREF button on my Personal Toolbar quite frequently during the day and am finding "Not Found" errors. The site is back again in a little while.

Just minutes ago, the same error occurred when I wrote a post and clicked on the Submit Reply button.

 

[thomas]

There is a chance of "DNS hiccups", as full domain propagation might take up to 48 hours:

Changes to domain name information in registry-controlled DNS zones are generally not instantaneous.

Once you make changes to your domain with the registrar you purchased your domain from, the changes will first have to be uploaded to the registry, which will then update its DNS servers with the new information. ISPs DNS resolvers can then pick up this information through a sequence of stages. [...]

As a result, it may take several days for changes to a domain's DNS records to propagate throughout the Internet; firstly the information must propagate from your registrar to the registry, secondly the registry must update its own DNS servers, and thirdly the ISPs recursive resolvers must forget their cached copies of any previous settings.

 

[epigene]

Thank you, Admin!

Relieved to know that they're just "hiccups"!

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Thank you, Admin, as always for your hard work!